Brecht And Method

Resumen del libro

"In his analysis of Brecht, Jameson forgoes the sort of chronological representation of Brecht in his various 'stages' (the early Brecht, the political Brecht, the mature Brecht) that characterizes most analyses of his work and instead asks that we recognize the various layers of history, overlapping in time, not space, which ultimately constitute who we understand as 'Brecht.'" - The Bookpress "Jameson puts demands on the reader, requiring great effort just to keep up, but those who apply themselves will come away with new admiration for Brecht as artist and as thinker. Recommended." - Choice "It is a rich book, one that strikes out in many different directions at once...perhaps the secret of Jameson's greatness, like Brecht's, is that he doesn't adhere to his method too strictly." - In These Times "This book contains a highly recommendable, elegant dissection of Brecht's method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond." - Modern Drama

Biografía del autor

Jameson, the William A. Lane Jr. is Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.<br>Jameson received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1959 and taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California before going to Duke in 1985. He is the author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991, which won the MLA Lowell Award), Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), The Cultural Turn (1998), and A Singular Modernity (2002). His recent works include Archaeologies of the Future (2005) and The Modernist Papers (2007). He received the 2008 Holberg Prize for his scholarship.